And for more than 30 years, NASCAR Illustrated has celebrated that lifestyle by taking race fans beyond the track and into the lives, homes and hobbies of NASCAR’s biggest stars.

Each monthly issue of Illustrated provides an up-close and personal look at the people who make NASCAR’s top racing series’ the most exciting and popular form of racing in the United States. Readers have come to expect everything from profiles of their favorite drivers, crew chiefs and NASCAR legends, to home tours and behind-the-scenes breakdowns of NASCAR’s most intricate and intriguing components in the “Anatomy of …” department.

The magazine is also a showcase for award-winning photography that puts fans in the middle of the action at the track and illustrates the NASCAR lifestyle off the track. NASCAR Illustrated has won the prestigious photojournalism prize in the Miller Lite Motorsports Journalism Awards of Excellence program. In addition, Illustrated writers are two-time winners of the Russ Catlin Award for Excellence in Motorsports Journalism.

While officially licensed to carry the NASCAR name, NASCAR Illustrated is an independent operation of Sporting News. Most of NASCAR Illustrated’s employees work from the American City Business Journals headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. — near the hub of the sport. The office is fewer than two blocks from the NASCAR Hall of Fame.